This was the first time I put up a Christmas tree since 2005. My mom died that year, quite suddenly, on New Year's Eve and I just hadn't felt like decorating.
It was harder than I thought it would be. When I opened the boxes of ornaments, I kept thinking that the last time I'd opened them, my mom had been alive. But that was the easy part: when I unpacked the Christmas stockings, I cried to think how much my mom would have loved to make a stocking for Hannah, my granddaughter who was born in 2007.
Lubbock, Texas
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